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• DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Biz2X and Dubai International Financial Centre ( DIFC ) today announced that Frontiers of Digital Finance (FDF) will be an official event at the 2024 Dubai FinTech Summit.
• FDF Dubai will feature key industry leaders from financial institutions, technology platforms, global consultancies, and government officials in an invite-only event on May 8, 2024.
• In collaboration with DIFC Innovation Hub, the event will also spotlight Dubai's groundbreaking Vision D33 for transforming finance in the Emirates.
• We are proud to be hosting these urgent and powerful conversations with the Frontiers of Digital Finance series."

• Parsley Health , a digital health company designed to improve health status and lower costs in patients with complex and chronic conditions using root cause medicine, today announced that accomplished healthcare executive, Paul Martino, has been appointed as Chair of the Board.
• "Parsley Health simplifies complex health care, manages costs and ultimately helps patients live healthier lives,” said Paul Martino.
• His leadership and partnership will be instrumental in accelerating Parsley’s growth,” said Dr. Robin Berzin, M.D., Founder, and CEO of Parsley Health.
• Founded in 2016 by Dr. Robin Berzin, MD, a Columbia-trained physician and digital health expert, Parsley Health originally opened with brick-and-mortar centers in New York and California.

• A new study from Sonde Health has validated the company's mental fitness vocal biomarker (MFVB) platform ’s ability to reliably distinguish individuals with elevated mental health symptoms.
• The four-week cohort study revealed a statistically significant correlation between voice-based identification of increased or decreased mental health risk with the results of the M3 Checklist, a clinically validated mental health assessment.
• Those who used it 5-6 times per week were 8.5 times more likely to demonstrate elevated mental health symptoms via the M3 Checklist.
• We believe the MFVB can foster stronger awareness about individuals’ mental well-being, thereby encouraging them to cultivate healthy habits and proactively mitigate their mental health risks."

• Rankings influence student matriculation numbers, attract talented faculty and justify donations from wealthy donors.
• University leaders rail against them, and some schools “withdraw” from them, but rankings are influential.
• A radical shift in the data underlying rankings is about to upend the rankings world – largely in favor of China’s position.
• China’s swift progress in science and technology, propelled by investments in research and university strength, has alarmed the United States and other nations.

Broader range of more sources

• But careful curation makes it the gold standard of academic indexing and one that journals and authors aspire to join.
• Reliance on curated databases is about to end with the introduction of rankings based on open data like that collected by OpenAlex.
• OpenAlex claims to include over 100,000 journals – of highly varying quality and editorial practices – compared with SCI’s 9,200.

Reflecting China’s research productivity

• As China has invested in education and grown its science and engineering capacity, many more people turn out scholarly articles.
• From a very small number in the 1980s, China had 2.2 million scientists and engineers by 2023, based on UNESCO data.
• China’s scholarly output of scientific and engineering articles shows a very rapid rise since the 1990s, with growth outpacing all other nations.
• Open-access publishing services have grown rapidly and offer fast publication times, but there are questions about the quality of their journals.
• Chinese researchers and their sponsoring institutions put a huge premium on publishing in international journals, even those hosted by questionable publishers.

Caroline Wagner does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.